Sunday, April 07, 2019

Clumsy but Cute: Asian elephant calf loses its footing

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NEW SOUTH WALES, Australia (STORYFUL) - A very cute Asian elephant calf took a tumble in the mud at the Taronga Western Plains Zoo in Dubbo,...
Saturday, April 06, 2019

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Asian elephants are highly intelligent social animals. That, along with their formidable strength, has been their undoing. From India to Cam...
Friday, April 05, 2019

Climate to give jumbos Himalayan task

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Global warming and conflicts with humans will wipe out 41.8% of elephant habitat in India by the century end, pushing elephants into higher ...
Thursday, April 04, 2019

PHOTOS: Meet the pianist for elephants

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Paul Barton, a British musician, from Yorkshire, plays classical music to old, overworked and sometimes disabled elephants. All photographs:...
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Monday, March 25, 2019

The Elephant Project Collaborates With Government Of Myanmar To Save Endangered Elephants Throughout The Nation

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The Elephant Project recently announced that it has entered into an unprecedented agreement with the Government of the Republic of the Union...
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Saturday, March 23, 2019

Science: Intercourse variations in persona traits in Asian elephants [Report]

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Scientists from the University of Turku, Finland, have found that male and female Asian elephants differ in their personality. Previous work...
Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Myanmar And The Elephant Project Made History By Signing Agreement For Elephant's Care

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The Myanmar government and The Elephant Project signed a new historical agreement that aimed to relocate elephants into a safer place, avoid...
Tuesday, March 12, 2019

MYANMAR BURNS $1.15 MILLION WORTH OF ILLEGAL IVORY

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Myanmar burnt $1.15 million worth of ivory and other seized illegal wildlife parts in a symbolic stand against the trade. The event was orga...
Friday, March 08, 2019

Elephantine attraction opens up in Yangon

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It’s not often that a story about elephant tusks goes viral, but that’s what happened last week. An article in the media about the tusks of ...
Thursday, March 07, 2019

EU study boost fight against illegal wildlife trade in Mekong region

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The European Union has launched an intensive study about the illegal wildlife trade in the Greater Mekong Region and its threat to biodivers...
Monday, March 04, 2019

Myanmar destroys confiscated ivory, opens elephant museum

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Confiscated ivory and other animal parts are displayed before being destroyed during a ceremony to mark World Wildlife Day at Yangon Zoologi...
Sunday, March 03, 2019

Myanmar opens elephant museum in Yangon

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A woman views an exhibit during the opening ceremony of the first elephant museum in Yangon, Myanmar, March 3, 2019. Funded by the World Wid...

MYANMAR-YANGON-ELEPHANT IVORY AND WILDLIFE PARTS-DESTRUCTION

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YANGON, March 3, 2019 - Confiscated wildlife parts to be destroyed are seen during the destruction ceremony of confiscated elephant ivory an...
Saturday, March 02, 2019

EU congratulates Myanmar on tackling illegal wildlife trade

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The European Union (EU) has congratulated Myanmar on tackling illegal wildlife trade in a statement to mark World Wildlife Day that falls o...

Elephant encounters on Thai trip of a lifetime

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There in front of us, down in the valley below, was a herd of wild elephants and their adorable babies. We weren’t on the plains of Africa, ...

Elephant expert Dhriti Kanta dies at 87

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Kolkata: An expert on Indian elephants and celebrated author, Dhriti Kanta Lahiri Choudhury, breathed his last at his south Kolkata residenc...
Friday, March 01, 2019

Mahouts In Myanmar Are Younger And Less Experienced, Study Shows

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AsianScientist (Mar. 1, 2019) – Scientists in Myanmar and Finland have found that elephant handlers, also known as mahouts, in Myanmar are y...
Thursday, February 28, 2019

Myanmar to burn seized wildlife parts at Yangon Zoo

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The government will burn elephant tusks and other wildlife parts worth US$1.1 million (K1.66 billion) that were seized over the past year, a...

Poachers hunted after elephant killed in Cambodian wildlife reserve

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MONDULKIRI provincial authorities are hunting poachers who shot an elephant for its tusks near Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary. Cambodia Enviro...

Asian elephants may lose up to 42 percent of suitable habitats in India and Nepal by 2070

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Protecting and expanding suitable habitats for wildlife is key to the conservation of endangered species, but owing to climate and land use ...
Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Myanmar to open elephant museum in Yangon

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YANGON, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar will soon open a first elephant museum in Myanmar's Yangon next month, according to the forest depar...

Taronga Western Plains Zoo announces death of elderly Asian elephant

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One of Australia’s oldest elephants has died at Dubbo’s Taronga Western Plains Zoo, aged 62. The elderly Asian female elephant arrived at th...
Thursday, February 21, 2019

Shan Yoma elephant camp plans more activities for visitors

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The Shan Yoma elephant camp located near the Nampantant Village in Kalaw Township is planning to add more activities for visitors, such as a...
Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Thai farmers’ joy: elephant damage now covered | #AsiaNewsNetwork

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Bangkok (The Nation) - The Thai Cabinet has given its approval for farmers’ insurance to include intrusion by wild elephants that destroys t...
Monday, February 18, 2019

Mahout study laments slump in knowledge transfer

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YANGON — The care of working elephants in Myanmar has been affected by a decline in the transfers of knowledge that mahouts have accumulated...
Tuesday, February 05, 2019

Manchaung Elephant camp to open near Shwesettaw Pagoda

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MAGWAY-With intention to attract foreign tourists, Manchaung Elephant Camp will be opened in conjunction with the Shwesettaw Pagoda festival...
Tuesday, January 15, 2019

New elephant camp will be opened in Magway

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A new elephant camp will be opened in Myanmar's Magway region next month as a wildlife-based tourist destination and a wildlife conserva...
Monday, December 31, 2018

Authorities arrest suspected illegal wildlife trader

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Law enforcement officers on Sunday arrested a man suspected to be an illegal wildlife trader and seized an assortment of wildlife parts foun...
Friday, December 21, 2018

Authorities take aim at illegal wildlife trade

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Myanmar's rich biodiversity continues to be damaged by illegal trade and the killing of elephants and other wild animals. Of the over 20...
Sunday, December 09, 2018

Elephants now in demand for their skin

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Recent times have seen the emergence of a dangerous trend that would adversely affect elephant populations everywhere. This is the growing d...
Monday, December 03, 2018

Yangon Strives to Rid City of Illegal Wildlife Trade

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The Yangon Region Forest Department is working with international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) to designate Yangon as the first ci...
Thursday, November 29, 2018

Kennedy Elephant Camp to be established in Kachin State

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“The aim of opening the elephant camp here is to ignite love for the natural environment, to be more intimate with elephants, to cherish ele...

Elephant camp to be built near popular pagoda in Magwe

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A Conservation-based elephant tourism project will be set up near Mann Shwe Set Taw (The Golden Footprints) pagoda in Magwe Region, U Myint ...
Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Less than 2,000 elephants survive in Burma

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According to official 2018 data from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, there are only 2,000 domestic and wild ...

Wild elephant killed with poison arrow in Ayeyarwady – Myanmar Times

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He said a combined team of officers from the department, forest police, Elephant Emergency Response Unit and police found the dead elephant,...
Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Less than 2,000 elephants survive in Burma

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According to official 2018 data from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, there are only 2,000 domestic and wild ...